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Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe. They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work.

Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers

"Citemine: preparations for the publish:filter revolution have begun" (ultrafast peer review?)

The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.

five factors - peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata - as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles,

The six month review will look at what the UK can learn from US rules on the use of copyright material without the rights holder's permission.

international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences

inclusionists and deletionists

new OA calculations from Ulrich, by S. Harnad

Implications of new federal directives for data sharing, privacy, compliance, access and good practices for libraries collaborating with researchers

* A common reason for measuring the impact of research is to demonstrate accountability, but results of measuring can also be used to guide improvements in research and programming. * Health research impacts generally include: knowledge production; research capacity-building; informed decision-making; health and health sector benefits; and economic benefits. * Among some of the widely used methods for measuring the benefits from research are bibliometric analysis, economic rate of return, peer review, case studies, logic modelling, and benchmarking. Taking a multi-indicator, multi-method approach is advised.

This is the first public version of the collective proposal led by C. Neylon to develop alternative metrics of scholarly output that wil combine measures of usage and re-use and social metrics (commenting, discussions, etc.) with citation and peer review metrics.

New extensive report from CSHE